DACA: Stealing the American Dream/caption
Only in legendand our topsy-turvy political climatecan lawbreakers be treated like heroes. As an analogy Robin Hood famously stole from the rich to give to the poor. While doing so he ironically wore all green: the color of money. This bowed bandit took goods benefiting one group the wealthy and redistributed them to another. Thus was this Sherwood Forest dweller this do-gooder" outlaw the worlds first Bernie Sanders (I-VT) socialist?
Today cant any political scheme be rationalized via Robin Hoods claim of good intentions? For example when Democrats made their late night locked door legislative arrangementwith zero Republican support that average Americans knew nothing aboutthats called Obamacare. Given their appropriation of one-sixth of the U.S. economy Robin of Loxley would have undoubtedly been among their number given his own sticky fingered proclivities. Yet if a similar takeover was perpetrated in the private sector its likely criminal; or in DACAs (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) case at least unconstitutional.
How is stealing a quasi-legal status akin to citizenship not in the same vein as bank robbing? After all in both cases something valuable is stolen by individuals with no legal entitlement to it. Complicating matters is the fact that such freedoms are intangible: in essence more precious than Robins booty could ever be. So rather than a higher penalty our societys lawmakers should reward such wrongdoing again? For context during the Reagan era the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 (IRCA) granted up to three million unauthorized migrants a path to legalization if they had been continuously" present in the U.S. since January 1 1982. Isnt any DACA replacement regardless of its particulars singing from the same sheet music? Make no mistake: its politically correct amnesty for the undeserving. A popular and easy fix" to low-information voters that bolsters the self-serving agendas of both political parties: cheap labor for Republicans voters for Democrats. However whats politically expedient still is not right. Laws turned into Swiss cheese by Washingtons shortsighted whims are as effective as porous borders are safe.
Any democratic society must respect the laws that bind its members or it quickly degenerates into chaos criminality and tribalism. Such is the ongoing occupation of America by an estimated 11 million illegals. Under the best scenario even a handful of bad actors among this shadowy underclass are an existential threat. Who are they? Where are they? How do they support themselves? Where do their loyalties lie? How is any modern society to function without safeguards or a basic measure of cultural cohesion?
In any civilized society lawbreakers go to jail for undermining society in various fundamental ways. Consequently that outcome causes absences that divide families. Children from both camps though no fault of their own are made to suffer because of their parents unlawful decisions. In a nutshell illegals offspring are anchor babies" compelling D.C.s current compassionate" DACA doublespeak. In the name of their broods why should illegals derive special privileges that no incarcerated citizen enjoys: to flout our laws with impunity and escape consequences all to benefit their blameless loved ones? In other words a good sounding excuse justifies almost any malfeasance. By that same skewed logic should all convicts be liberated from Americas prisons solely to rejoin their marginalized children? The fact remains that both sets of law violators present a potential danger to everyone else. Even a crowd-pleasing rogue like Robin Hood would not abet such a grand injustice.
David L. Hunter is an Associate Editor at Capitol Hill Outsider and a Newsmax contributor. Hes on Twitter and blogs at davidlhunter.blogspot.com. He is published in The Washington Post The Washington Times FrontPage Mag and extensively in Patriot Post Canada Free Press and American Thinker.